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Learn
Lessons explain one idea, work through an example, then help you check your understanding.
Learning hubs and lessons
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Before your first stock market order
- Before your first stock market order
- How the Indian Stock Market Works: Ownership, Trading and Settlement
- NSE vs BSE: What an Exchange Does, and What It Does Not
- Demat, Trading and Bank Accounts: Three Records, Three Different Jobs
- How a Share Order Reaches the Exchange: Six Stages, and Where One Can Stop
- Market, Limit and Stop Orders: What Each One Controls
- What is margin?
- What is a lot size?
- How do capital gains on shares work?
- How do market hours and holidays work?
- Investor Safety Checklist: Before Money Moves or Access Is Granted
- Stock-Market Scam Warning Signs: Reading the Sequence, Not the Moment
- How to Complain: Preparing a Securities Complaint and Using SCORES
- What Is Paper Trading? Meaning, Uses and Limits
Levels, breaks, and breaks that fail
- Levels, breaks, and breaks that fail
- Support and Resistance Zones: An Area, Not a Floor
- Range Compression and Expansion: The Squeeze Before a Move
- Breakout Retest: Old Resistance as New Support
- Bear Trap / False Breakdown: Anatomy of a Failed Support Break
- Bull Trap / False Breakout: When a Resistance Break Fails
- Bear Trap: A Worked Case Study of a False Breakdown
- Head & Shoulders Failure: A Failed Topping Pattern
- Cup & Handle: Rounded Base, Handle, Breakout
The first hour
Who is actually behind the move
Open interest: the four-cell map
- Open interest: the four-cell map
- Open Interest vs Volume: Counting Contracts, Not Trades
- Long Build-Up: Price Up and Open Interest Up Together
- Short Build-Up: Price Down and Open Interest Up
- Long Unwinding: Price Down and Open Interest Down
- Short Covering: Price Up while Open Interest Falls
- Short Covering Read Through Open Interest: A Worked Futures Example
- Open Interest as Evidence: What the Count Can and Cannot Support
What you are actually buying
- What you are actually buying
- What Is Options Trading? Calls, Puts and Premium
- Futures vs Options: The Contract Before the Payoff
- What an Option Premium Is Made Of: Intrinsic Value and Time Value
- Moneyness: What In, At and Out of the Money Actually Mean
- Delta: Why the Index Moved and the Option Barely Did
- Expiry Theta Trap: How Option Premium Decays
- Volatility Crush: The Event Happened and the Premium Still Fell
- Option Greeks: The Four Sensitivities and the Units They Are Quoted In
- Breakeven: How Far the Underlying Has to Move Before You Are Even
- Expiry Week: Open Interest Falling in One Series and Building in the Next
What a trade has to clear
Is this pattern real?
- Is this pattern real?
- What a Chart Can and Cannot Tell You: Observation, Interpretation, Claim
- Sample Size: What Twelve Occurrences Actually Prove
- Base Rate First: What the Market Did Anyway
- Search Enough Rules and One Will Fit by Chance
- The Shuffle Test: Comparing a Result Against Nothing
- Forward Versus Backward: A Rule Tested on Its Own Data Is Untested
Investing money, not trading it
- Investing money, not trading it
- How a SIP Works: Units, Average Cost and the Rate You Assume
- NAV, Expenses and What a Fund Comparison Has to Match
- Diversification and Inflation: Two Things a Return Figure Hides
- CAGR, XIRR and Absolute Return: Three Answers About One Account
- IPO Applications: What ASBA Blocks and What Allotment Decides
- Bonus Shares, Splits and Dividends: What Actually Changes
Glossary
Read a term, what it does not prove, and the lessons that use it.
- 52-Week High / Low
- ATR (Average True Range)
- Base Rate
- Bear Trap
- Bollinger Bands
- Bollinger squeeze breakout
- Breakeven
- Breakout
- Bull Trap
- CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate)
- Capital Gains
- Circuit Limits (Price Bands)
- Delivery Percentage
- Delta
- Drawdown
- EMA (Exponential Moving Average)
- EMA crossover trend follow
- Expectancy
- Expiry Day
- False Breakout
- Gamma
- Hit Rate
- Impact Cost (Slippage)
- Implied Volatility (IV)
- Intrinsic Value
- Liquidity
- Lot Size
- Margin
- Market glossary
- Max pain
- Moneyness (ITM, ATM, OTM)
- Muhurat Trading
- Null Model (Shuffle Test)
- Open Interest
- Option Chain
- Option Premium
- Out-of-Sample Test
- Overfitting
- Pivot points
- Relative Volume
- Rollover
- RSI (Relative Strength Index)
- Sample Size
- Securities Transaction Tax (STT)
- Short Covering
- Strike Price
- Support and Resistance
- T+1 Settlement
- Theta
- Time Value
- Traded Volume
- Vega
- VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price)
- VWAP pullback
- XIRR (Extended Internal Rate of Return)
Articles
See what changed in the market, when it changed and how it affects the sums.
- Blog
- Brokerage charges per trade: what a trade really costs after STT, GST and every other charge
- Closing auction session: how the closing price is struck in an auction from 3 August 2026
- Diwali-Balipratipada on Tue, 10 Nov, 2026: NSE trading holidays 2026, every closure left and the settlement date each one moves
- Gold Mutual Fund SIP Paused? Investments and Redemptions Explained
- Has SEBI Asked to Remove LTCG Tax for Foreign Investors? FII LTCG Tax Explained
- How Long Will Money Last With an SWP? Fixed and Rising Withdrawals
- Is 1 Crore Enough to Retire in India? It Depends on Your Spending
- Muhurat Trading 2026: NSE Timings, Charges and a Simple Checklist
- NIFTY lot size change: one symbol, two lot sizes, and how a revision reaches contracts that already exist
- On Monday the market opens on a different clock: the pre-open session is rebuilt from 7 September 2026
- SIP Calculator Formula: Why Two SIP Calculators Give Different Answers
- Step Up SIP vs Regular SIP: What the Bigger Balance Really Includes
- US Stock Market Timings in India (2026): Opening Time, Holidays and the November Change
- WhatsApp Stock Tips Scam: Warning Signs from SEBI's October 2026 Alert
- Why Does the Stock Market Fall? 12 Common Reasons
- Why is the stock market closed? "Closed" can mean four different things
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Strategies
Compare the costs and possible results of option combinations.
- Strategies
- Asymmetric Iron Condor
- Bear Call Credit Spread
- Bear Put Debit Spread
- Bull Call Debit Spread
- Bull Put Credit Spread
- Call Backspread 1:2
- Call Ratio Spread 1:2
- Cash-Secured Index Put
- Conversion with Future
- Double Calendar
- Double Diagonal
- Future with Protective Put
- Futures Calendar: Long Near / Short Next
- Futures Calendar: Short Near / Long Next
- Futures Collar
- Futures-Covered Call
- Long Box Spread
- Long Call
- Long Call Broken-Wing Butterfly
- Long Call Butterfly
- Long Call Calendar
- Long Call Condor
- Long Call Diagonal
- Long Index Future
- Long Iron Butterfly (Reverse)
- Long Iron Condor (Reverse)
- Long Put
- Long Put Broken-Wing Butterfly
- Long Put Butterfly
- Long Put Calendar
- Long Put Condor
- Long Put Diagonal
- Long Straddle
- Long Strangle
- Long Strap
- Long Strip
- NIFTY / BANKNIFTY Futures Pair · Unbalanced
- Put Backspread 1:2
- Put Ratio Spread 1:2
- Reversal with Future
- Short Box Spread
- Short Call
- Short Call Broken-Wing Butterfly
- Short Call Butterfly
- Short Call Calendar
- Short Call Condor
- Short Call Diagonal
- Short Future with Protective Call
- Short Index Future
- Short Iron Butterfly (Credit)
- Short Iron Condor (Credit)
- Short Put
- Short Put Broken-Wing Butterfly
- Short Put Butterfly
- Short Put Calendar
- Short Put Condor
- Short Put Diagonal
- Short Straddle
- Short Strangle
- Short Strap
- Short Strip
- Synthetic Long Forward
- Synthetic Short Forward
Build a strategy
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Practice games
Quick quizzes on strategies, charts, Greeks, option chains and past market days with practice option prices.
- Practice games
Quick quizzes on strategies, charts, Greeks, option chains and past market days with practice option prices.
- Pick the strategy
Read a view of NIFTY and choose the strategy that fits it.
- Spot the pattern
Look at a chart and name the pattern in it.
- Greeks check
Delta, gamma, theta, vega and implied volatility. See how each one moves an option's price.
- Read the chain
Find the ATM strike, the biggest OI, the put-call ratio and max pain in a practice chain.
- What happened that day
Past NIFTY days with practice option prices. Say what the index, an option or India VIX did.
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